The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-08-11
SCHOOL ExAnlssns' QUESTION:.
aesmlt or the Msstlns On Saturday ,
Augass osA.


August osn.
ARITHMETIC.
1. What does .0e4 with an exponen,
y equal
2. If I buy goods ut 20 per cent. In.
low their value, and discount Of 8 per
cent. Is allowed for prompt payment.
what per cent. Is my profit N sel,
them ut 10 per cent. above their value :?
8. I sold two horses for $876, gain.
Ing 10 per cent. on the first and losing
10 per cent on the second. How mucl,
did each cost II the second c0st SO
more than the first
1. Write system0ttc outline ar
classification Of quadrilaterals.
4. When gold was at q premium Of
25 per cent, what was the discount on
greenbAcke
9. How long must tape be to wind
spirally around cylinder that Is 30 II.
long and 8 II. In circumference, provid.
ed Il passes around once every An?
Z. The sides of triangle are 70, 20
aud 80 It. Find the diameter of the
Inscribed circle.
8. The product of two numbers is
1,2S0 and their quotient Is 4. Find the
two numbers.
9. BY what must the surface Of u
globe be multiplied to give its soIi,iity /?
10. Two trees stand on opposite
sides Of n stream 40 feet wide the
height of one tree is to width of the
stream as 8 is to and the width of the
is to 8. What Is the distance between
their tops?
THEORY AND PRACTICES.
l. What is education?
2. What IL discipline
s. What books of the Ohio Teach.
ers' Reading Circle have you read?
4. What should be attained by a
recitatiOn?,
s. Name some of the more import.
ant duties of the teacher.
6. Explain any one of the following
methods: Pestalozzian, Kindergarten
or Quincy.
Z. Have scholars ever convinced
you of any Of your mistakes in gram.
mar?
8. To whate extent do you allow them
to differ with you during recitation I?
Q. What Is the order of mental de.
velopment?
10 OF what benefit are Teachers
Institutes School journals, &c?
GEOGRAPHY.
l. Bound Massachusetts,, give capital,
area and population.
2. Name the States that border on
the Atlantic Ocean in their order, be.
ginning at the north.
8. What are Cyclones ? Give their
limit, direction Travelled, and the
direction of their rotary motion.
4. Why are the Temperate Zones
each 43a in width?
s. Bound Bolivia, give capital and
principal rivers.
6. Bound Highland county, name
and locate the principal streams of
water.
z. Describe the lake systems of the
United States.
8. On what bodies of water would you
sail in going from Milwaukee to Dublin?
9. A travelled south six degrees from
st. Paul, thence east ten degrees, give
bis latitude and longitude.
10. What are the three causes of the
change of seasons, and inequality in
length of day and night?
GRAMMAR.
l. Parse in full, "How do you do p
"What O'Clock IL It p
2. Write the plural of cheese, bath,
cloth, lath, and wreath.
B. What ts the distinction between q
common and proper noun? An alb
stract and collective noun?
4. What different kind Of clauses
may that Introduce or connect?
s. What are correct definitions of
subject and predicate
o. What is the pOssessive form, In
the singular and plural numb Der, of ratio,
tobacco, conscience, Charles, and OK ?
Z. II like to see little dog,
And pat him on the head,
30 prettiiy he wags bis tail,
Whenever he is fed."
Analyze the sentence and parse
''pat."
8. This In the home and man which |
Wish you to notice. The Jones' were
all there. Cromwell, than whom no |
man was better skilled In artifice. Cor.
rect the above.
.. What does the sentence II am
well, thank y0u," mean?
10. Diagram the following:
III to do were az easy as to know |
what were good to do, chspeIs had been
churches, and poor mems cottages
princes palaces.
What region Of the United States
lid Cortez explore and why did he ex.
,lore It.?
2. What was Land Charter? A
patent?
8. What was the size OF the two
armies at the close of the war?
4. What forts formerly occupied
Plttsburg, Cincinnati and Chicago
3. What was Mason and Dix0n's
Inc?
8. What was the "Town Meeting"
II New England times?
7. Write twenty lines ON the +
wenty fourth administration
ORTHoa1APHy.
!. What do we mean by elementary |
0unds
2. What is essential to every syIla-
lie? II
g.. Form derivative words, using the
'reaxes anti, mono, pro, trans and pre-,
md define them.
4. Prefix con to laborer, mend.
omen and relative. and accent the
GLOWING nouns: August, compact.
allant and suplne.
3. Spell correctly: McCawley. raj
ery. demurrer, ciphen, skemer, re-
'efsei, exstasy, irrevokeable, ensillage |
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